Slits Replacing Windows

This house is made "only" by slits, there are no windows. The wall of 105 m lengths with 60 slits surrounding the site realizes the architectural space in this narrow and long site. No other architecture has ever been realized by such a method. Continue

Living a Creative Life: Fumie Shibata

Fumie Shibata is the establisher of Design Studio S. Since Shibata was a kid, she had always loved to draw images and create things. Continue

Architecture Protecting Sky and Light  

The essence of this architecture lies in an inner court. The site is located in Sumizome, Fushimi, Kyoto. It’s a small town with a long and distinguished history, situated south of the Tofukuji temple. Facing to south, the building is built on a gentle slope. Continue

Misshaped Site Re-imagined Geometrically

The project that Sinato faced was to create a home to a family considering of four. The major problem was though how they would build a residence on a misshapen site. Continue

YOYOGI: How to bring modern life into a 80 m2 house in Tokyo

The Yoyogi is a 80 m2 house in Shibuya ward, Tokyo by Front Office Tokyo. The mission with this project was to construct a house that consisted of a rather small area in central Tokyo and then give it a modern look. Continue

Jun Igarashi: Your Vision Gets Shaped with Experience

Have a vision; clearly tell, and express it. – Jun Igarashi. Architect, Jun Igarashi was born year 1970 in Hokkaido, Japan. He quickly in life took interest in architecture as arts had been more of a tradition in his family. Continue

Santo Amaro: How a Residence can be United with Nature

This year, the Isay Weinfeld architecture firm constructed the Santo Amaro residence in São Paulo, Brazil. This deluxe residence consists of a 1275 m2 area and is surrounded with green nature. Nature can't be bypassed in the Santo Amaro residence as the green life is exposed in virtually all corners of the house. Continue

Jeong- Eun Lee: Design requires Heart and Sweat

Young designer, Jeong- Eun Lee, says that design is in her blood. The strong interest for the heritage of crafts became a natural part of Lee’s life as she was brought up by a jewelry designer father and a fashion designer mother. Time and again as she saw self-made jewelry and colorful patterns: her will to adopt a life in design culture nurtured. Continue

Rodrigo Silveira – Get Your Hands Dirty!

Designer Rodrigo Silveria started wood working when he began collage. As he studied industrial design at the Brazilian school FAAP, he was introduced to carpentry. Today he makes money by selling his work. Continue

An Exercise of Faith: Kenneth Nilson on Being a Designer

Designer Kenneth Nilson started his education in design at Moorhead State University in Moorhead, Minnesota, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1992. Continue

Milla Rezanova: “For Myself I Have Opened Two Sources of Inspiration”

Milla Rezanova is a Russian designer born in 1978. She's involved with innovative and creative design, that kind of design where experimentation is required. Continue

Bringing You a Great Resource for Branding: 51 Pieces from the Renaissance

Myths and history are great when you're creating an experience for a brand. The Renaissance was a cultural movement that profoundly transformed intellectual life in literature, philosophy, art, politics, science, religion, and other aspects of intellectual inquiry. Continue

The Evolution of Jay-Z: Cover Design

It's worth taking the time to study the packaging methods of today's society, it helps us learn and understand branding much better. Here's the evolution of Jay-Z's Cover Designs. What do they tell you? Continue

Design is Changing: Roderick N.Shade

Roderick Shade's design philosophy is to always think of the client's needs and wishes first. He is well known for founding the Harlem United Show House, the first African American exhibition. Continue

BIG: Turn Slussen Inside Out

Big projects need great determination and skill. The city of Stockholm in Sweden is in search of a design for their urban space, Slussen, where cars, trains and buses could move continuously without problems. Architecture company, BIG, took on the task and found an innovative design to match the needs of the city. Continue

Keep on Trying, Everything Eventually Gives Results: Philippe Cramer

Philippe Cramer is a product designer, born in New York and grew up in Switzerland. Continue

Start Fresh on Each New Project: Bart Prince

Bart Prince is an American architect who was born June 24, 1947 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He toke an interest in architecture at a very early age, before he knew what the name for “architecture” meant, he began making drawings and building models. Continue

Sustainability Deals with Systems: Ori Ben-Zvi

For ten years, Ori Ben-Zvi has been a practitioner and an academic who works with sustainable design. He’s an industrial designer lecturing at Holon Technology Institute at the department of industrial design. Continue